USS GARDINERS BAY AVP 39

Comments: I served aboard the Gardiners Bay from 1952 to 1954. We made two runs to the far east and operated in the Formosa chain of Islands.

Keywords: Pescadores Islands -Formosa

served on USS Gardiners Bay 50/53

Comments: traveled all over the far east..even got to indo-China for a night while French were fighting....

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USS Gardiners Bay (AVP-39)

Comments: We're interested in contacting all former shipmates of the USS Gardiners Bay for our next reunion to be held in Long Beach, CA, in September 2002. Past reunions organized in great part by Jerry Chatelain (EN3/C, 1948-1952) have been real treats to attend. The last one, held in Seattle, August 21-26, 2001, was coordinated by Art and Lorraine Larson, Dale and Margaret Smith, and George Bess and Mildred Tricinella.

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Mailman 49-52

Comments: Served aboard Uss Gardiners Bay ( AVP 39) from Dec. 1948 to June 52. Was the ships mailman for last 3 years aboard.

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Gardiners Bay Crew

Comments: Served in Radio crew from 1949-1951 as RM-2. Looking for Radiomen Maxwell and Dunn same era.

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Gardiner's Bay (AVP-39)

Comments: I was the disbursing Officer on the Gardiner's Bay from 1954 to 1956. It seemed our primary mission was monitoring aircraft traffic all over the far east. Our cripto shack was manned 24 hours a day, and all officers stood regular duty in the shack. We made one trip into Keelung, Formosa, a trip into the Pescadores where we say the gunboats of the Nationalist Navy (frequently sitting high and dry), and on two extended occasions we worked as the Station Ship in Hong Kong, providing boarding parties for the visiting sailors on R&R to the area. In a year and a half we 'tended' a seaplane on one occasion. It developed trouble and had landed in the harbor in Nha Trang, Indochina (Viet Nam). We were dispatched by COMAIRPAC to leave Hong Kong immediately, and render assistance as needed to the PBM and its crew. About all we were capable of doing was to hold their hands until real assistance arrived. That's what we did. We actually refueled a PBM in the Pescadores on one occasion, but it may have been a training exercise??

Keywords: Gardiner's Bay (AVP-39) Hamilton County (LST-802)

DID you help me in '49-50??

Comments: ON about 49-'50 @ the Phlipines sea base, at the Manila Bay entrance ( Sangley Point?)... Your ship had an elec TECH (AT) that I went to school (Memphis) with.. I called him on the VHF from a PBM in the water, and he came over with tools and a boat to help me adjust the MAD ASW equip for next-day sub hunting war games.... ARE you he? or know about this ? Chuck Fuller 760-941-1236 (CA)

Keywords: PBM, ASW, MAD